The rear calipers I have found love sticking. The slide pins get junk in them and just seize, mine were rusted all the way. It causes the pad on one side to wear completely, while the pad on the other side is almost like new. Fix is either clean the pins and the hole really well and grease with new boot. Or you could just get a new caliper.
Yea thats how my first one was...rust everywhere. What should I clean it with? Brake parts cleaner...?
lol im a n00b
if your sliders are just sticking you should be able to take them apart(grab some PB blaster from o'riellys) and then get some high temp grease and re-grease the sliders.. shouldn't take you long to do.. its only 4 bolts per caliper
Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:14 am
Ibuki
Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:41 am
Posts: 1407
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Re: Problem fixed but a new one has come up
Bubbles wrote:
rebeltshead wrote:
blacks13coupe wrote:
The rear calipers I have found love sticking. The slide pins get junk in them and just seize, mine were rusted all the way. It causes the pad on one side to wear completely, while the pad on the other side is almost like new. Fix is either clean the pins and the hole really well and grease with new boot. Or you could just get a new caliper.
Yea thats how my first one was...rust everywhere. What should I clean it with? Brake parts cleaner...?
lol im a n00b
if your sliders are just sticking you should be able to take them apart(grab some PB blaster from o'riellys) and then get some high temp grease and re-grease the sliders.. shouldn't take you long to do.. its only 4 bolts per caliper
Same thing happened to mine and i did that. Now it works just fine. Put a good amount of grease on the pins for sure.
I had to replace my rotor because that one got ruined.
The rear calipers I have found love sticking. The slide pins get junk in them and just seize, mine were rusted all the way. It causes the pad on one side to wear completely, while the pad on the other side is almost like new. Fix is either clean the pins and the hole really well and grease with new boot. Or you could just get a new caliper.
Yea thats how my first one was...rust everywhere. What should I clean it with? Brake parts cleaner...?
lol im a n00b
if your sliders are just sticking you should be able to take them apart(grab some PB blaster from o'riellys) and then get some high temp grease and re-grease the sliders.. shouldn't take you long to do.. its only 4 bolts per caliper
Same thing happened to mine and i did that. Now it works just fine. Put a good amount of grease on the pins for sure.
I had to replace my rotor because that one got ruined.
I had the same problems with mine cleaned it up and worked fine till everything else wore out and I just replaced all 4 of them with refurbished ones from auto zone. but I soon had a simular problem but it was the adjuster wouldnt work so I replaced it under warranty.
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Thu Mar 04, 2010 1:00 pm
fivehunsky
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 10:25 am
Posts: 396
Re: Problem fixed but a new one has come up
Just be careful not to get any grease on the pads or rotors while your working on it. And wipe off any excess. Or, you will have brakes calipers that work great but pads that dont do anything.
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